George Stroumboulopoulos
George Stroumboulopoulos
George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulosis a Canadian television and radio personality. He is best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic and being the host of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonightfrom 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth16 August 1972
CityMississauga, Canada
CountryCanada
You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he'll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to.
Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.
I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.
A lot of people take shots at news channels.
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.
Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.
A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.
I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.
I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.
I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.